Alchemy Quotes · Page 3

“Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can’t see.” - Lady Lalaigne”

— Jeanine Henning

“I have dedicated my life to the noble sciences of mathematics, astrology, physics, alchemy, and magic.”

— J.L. Burger

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

— Terence McKenna

The Alchemy's secret key is hidden in the laboratory of the man and woman.

— Samael Aun Weor

“The days of darkness weren't wasted years, i learnt how to walk with the stars.”

— Nikki rowe

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?

— Avram Davidson

“Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.”

— Amit Ray

Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog…

— Anonymous

“If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the…

— Tom Althouse

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He…

— Susan Rowland

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if…

— Joseph Addison

It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff.…

— Alain Ducasse

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate…

— Florence King

The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into…

— Patricia Hampl

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and…

— Thomas Szasz

Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed…

— Andrea Dworkin

“They became upright and taught themselves the use of tools, domesticated other animals, plants and fire, and devised language. The ash of…

— Carl Sagan

“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence…

— C. JoyBell C

“For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in…

— C.G. Jung

“Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least…

— Paracelsus Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived…

— Fred Alan Wolf

Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But…

— William Gibson

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is…

— Peter Ackroyd

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

— Carlton Cuse

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

— Max More

Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.

— Anoushka Shankar

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

— Sam Keen

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

— Anonymous

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

The light needs only our trust And, of course, the darkness To work its eternal alchemy.

— Scott Hastie

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

— Fred Alan Wolf

“Money is a form of alchemy, [...] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.”

— Jasper Fforde

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

— Eckhart Tolle

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river.”

— Amit Ray

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

— Rajneesh

“Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.”

— Jake Ducey

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

— Gregory Colbert